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    Our flock started when my mother-in-law bought my twins 6 leg horns for Easter....4 roostes and 2 hens. I was very unhappy about this present but my unhappiness soon turned into an obsession. The following Spring, I bought 3 plymouth rocks and 7 sex links.....then 20 more....then more and...
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    Soft eggshell......... Should I be worried?

    My girls sometimes lay soft eggs. I have started giving them a calcium supplement like oyster shells. I give it to them with their snack. I give them their pellets in one tray and in another try they get a snack like scratch or fresh fruit and then I put the calcium in with that. I have...
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    Bumblefoot and Eggs

    Am I correct to understand that if my hen has bumblefoot, we should NOT eat her eggs? Can we eat the other eggs in the nest? She lays white eggs and I have chickens that lay brown and green eggs....so is it safe to eat the green & brown eggs? Also does anyone know if you MUST get all of the...
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    bumblefoot??? help please!!!

    How is your chicken's foot doing? Did you give the oral antibiotics and the antibiotic cream? I just found one of my hen's has bumblefoot and I did soak it for just a tad bit and got some goop out of it....but I did not get all of it out. Should I have been able to get all of it out at once...
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    What is a good dog to have around chickens?

    My children having been asking for a dog but I am having a hard time coming up with a dog that would be suitable to live with our chickens. We let our chickens free range on a pretty regular basis and I hate to start to confind them just because we get a dog. Does anyone have any suggestions...
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    I have pictures....What chickens are these?

    Thanks everyone for the help. I got confused with what I was told they were...I was told they are easter egger mongrels. Sorry if I confused anyone. I wanted to know what they were mixed with to have 5 toes. I didn't know any chickens had 5 toes until we were accidentally shipped a silkie...
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    I have pictures....What chickens are these?

    This is our part-time rooster, BB. Does anyone know what kind of rooster he is? I just bought these babies and realized they have 5 toes. What type of chickens are these? Thanks to any help you can give me. The guy said these are ameracaunas but they have 5 toes? Their skin is the...
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    Opps I DID IT AGAIN!

    The cochin babies look like the blue cochins I just got. You really have a store where you can go buy a variety of chicks...how awesome....I am jealous! I would definitely get myself into trouble....BIG trouble! LOL!
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    What chickens besides silkies have 5 toes?

    I just bought babies from a gentlman who told me that the babies I bought were ameraucanas (sp?). I just noticed today that some of them have 5 toes BUT their skin is light not black like the silkie I use to have. Are there other chickens that have 5 toes besides silkies? Thanks for any help.
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    Help....I am losing my babies left and right....HELP!

    The pen they are in is covered with a roof so they do not get direct sunlight. When we check on the babies, they were laying anywhere from directly under the light to laying on the edge of where the light fell...and we checked them a couple of times a day because I was so paranoid of losing...
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    Help....I am losing my babies left and right....HELP!

    I bought 8 babies from www.mypetchicken.com. I got 5 americaunas, 2 blue cochin and 1 silkie. I have since lost all but 3 (2 americaunas and 1 blue cochin). I lost 2 at one time. My husband thought maybe it was from them laying on top of each other and suffocating the ones on the bottom...
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    Dead chicks,

    It may not be anything you are doing. Did you order your checks through the mail? I know I have been told to expect casualties if you order them through the mail and fortunately, we haven't lost any yet.
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    egg prices

    I think I might have to raise my prices. LOL! I sell me free range chicken eggs for $1.00/dozen. To be honest, I don't even know what they cost in the store since I haven't bought eggs from a store in over 5 years.
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    Question about Silkie Chicken???

    Thank you everyone for the input. I was worried about this little lady since I don't know that much about silkies. I have been doing research since I found out she is a silkie but I was worried about the other girls picking on her. She is going to either be buff or white and we named her...
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    Is this a blue cochin????

    The blacks ones with cream colored bottoms look exactly like my baby blue cochins.
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    plugged bums

    As you move your baby chicks from their shipping box into their brooder kit check them for "pasting up", a condition in which their droppings cake up and block their vent opening, preventing them from passing any more droppings. This problem will be pretty obvious; you won't have to go poking...
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    Question about Silkie Chicken???

    I currently have leg horns, plymouth rock and sex link chickens. I ordered 5 americaunas and 3 blue cochins BUT I just found out that my 1 blue cochin is really a silkie bantam chicken. She is either a white or a buff silkie bantam. Anyway, my question is....will my other chickens hurt her...
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